Nine years ago today, Cardano minted its first block.
A global community has been building this blockchain ever since.
Some are in this video, and many more are reading this.
This celebration is yours.
Happy 9th birthday, Cardano.
🚀 New LIVE Mempool Tracker!
Your window into Cardano’s pending transactions just got a major upgrade 🔥
- Real-time Chain Congestion
- tx confirmation waiting time
- mempool statistics
- Real-time tx tracking and MORE
Check it out 👇
https://t.co/YYWERjPpbW
NEWS: 100,000 farmlands in India are now registered on Cardano. 🇮🇳
Satellite data creates tamper-resistant on-chain farm records, helping farmers access credit, insurance and new markets.
Built by https://t.co/brXGa6Euo1. Love to see real-world use cases for Cardano $ADA.
If you are in Silicon Valley and you want to join the Draper University APEX 2026 | Growth Accelerator Live Pitches please register here: https://t.co/31V28xwM71
I'd love to see you there!
"It's probably actually unique in the whole of the industry."
Intersect Executive Director, @JBriggsLondon - on what one member, one vote actually means when a global community has to decide what gets built next.
Watch: https://t.co/zuD2VelREi
Recorded with @theblockopedia_ at TOKEN2049, Singapore.
Cardano Governance Hour #12
Join @NicolasC3rny, Cardano Foundation Governance Lead, as he sits down with Steven Gaertner, CEO of @totofinance to discuss the Cardano Strategic Copper Reserve | ₳22M RWA Tokenization Treasury Withdrawal proposal.
📅 Tuesday, 27 October 2026
⏰ 16:30–17:00 UTC
🧵 Open thread for details
The proposal plans to hold the copper for 18–24 months before liquidation, with net sale proceeds and unused or unearned funds due back to the Treasury by month 36.
But returning the proceeds does not guarantee recovery of the original ₳22 million. Copper prices, ADA/USD movements, operating costs, custody arrangements, and bridge security all affect the financial risk.
We'll explore what safeguards, milestones, and measurable outcomes are needed to determine whether the proposal offers sufficient accountability and lasting value for Cardano.
I first built this as a visualisation for myself, but I think more people will enjoy it: our beautiful Cardano ecosystem: https://t.co/89zR0IwvD1
Built from crawling public sources and on-chain data via Yaci Store MCP. Early version, so please report anything odd or missing 🧵
x402 is a payment layer for the web: software pays for what it uses, request by request. It lets an AI agent buy data or compute on its own.
Dev Office Hours with Thomas Kammerlocher (@kammerlo91):
https://t.co/RaCYnga1g0
Earlier this year, the SEC classified $ADA as a digital commodity, not a security.
However, this classification only appears in the explanation of the new crypto rules, not in the rules themselves.
Six blockchain organizations have asked the SEC to write it into the rules. We co-signed the letter, alongside @StellarOrg, @Hedera, @AptosLabs, @AvaLabs and @Chainlink.
🔬 Reminder: Cardano R&D Session is coming up on Oct 22 at 2 PM UTC.
Join Input Output Research (IOR) for a Q3 update on Cardano Vision 26, covering Peras voting certificates, Mithril bridge security, ZK-rollup analysis, proof of personhood, and minUTXO alternatives.
🔗 Register here 👇
https://t.co/TWDdF1uJXH
More regulation doesn’t mean better regulation.
We just released a response to the EU’s MiCA review consultation, where we call for greater regulatory clarity and to improve the existing framework rather than expanding it.
Read our response: https://t.co/8IXN4aZxeE
Five tools maintained by @IntersectMBO are new in Builder Tools: cardano-api, cardano-rpc, cardano-wasm, cardano-sieve and cardano-testnet. They include a gRPC server built into cardano-node and a subset of cardano-api compiled to WebAssembly.
https://t.co/l84SlgNpxy
Dev Office Hours, this session: the Hydra team on use cases, running a head, Q&A.
What matters if you build on it: fees configurable down to zero inside a head, unanimous consensus, L1 at the edges.
Check the calendar for new sessions:
https://t.co/RaCYngaz5y
Currently 21 of the 103 apps listed on https://t.co/XXRKmcOmRb have transaction tracking switched on. Once it is enabled, an app appears on the leaderboard. Tracking is open to all projects building on Cardano.
https://t.co/YnvMr2ba6H
Developer Office Hours #84, Friday 08:00 UTC
Mateusz Czeladka (@matiwinnetou) from the Cardano Foundation walks through Mesmo: the Java Cardano Client Lib, made usable from Python, Go, Rust and TypeScript.
Register: https://t.co/WR8XplzO2g
@matiwinnetou We'll explore:
- Why Mesmo exists: features shouldn't wait on one maintainer - Cardano Client Lib compiled with GraalVM, no JVM at runtime
- Python, Go, Rust and TypeScript wrappers
- Where it helps today
- Live demos and Q&A